HEALTH CARE // Confident that House Republicans have the votes to partially repeal Obamacare, Vice President Pence said: “Tomorrow, we begin the end of Obamacare, once and for all.” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy added: “We will pass this.” http://cvote.it/2pb1zMY
HEALTH CARE // More Obamacare fallout: Medica, the last insurance carrier selling individual health policies in most of Iowa, says it likely will pull out: “Without swift action by the state or Congress to provide stability to Iowa’s individual insurance market, Medica will not be able to serve the citizens of Iowa in the manner and breadth that we do today.” http://cvote.it/2pam2Sg
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY // President Trump is expected to sign a religious order which seems significantly narrower that previous draft orders. It would do three things: 1. Declare protection of religious liberty the policy of the administration, 2. Direct the IRS to exercise discretion to alleviate burden of Johnson Amendment that targets political speech of pastors. 3. Provide regulatory relief for the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious groups who object to the HHS mandate. http://cvote.it/2paJKxv
POLITICS // Obama’s former campaign manager David Axelrod slams Hillary Clinton: “It takes a lot of work to lose to Donald Trump.” http://cvote.it/2pb0sgo
MILLENNIALS // Nationally, nearly 73% of 25-to 34-year-olds lived in the suburbs in 2015, and 21% lived in cities — a ratio that is unchanged from 2010. That challenges the notion that cities are all millennial magnets. http://cvote.it/2paDYMu
INTERNET // Michael Brendan Dougherty asks a lot of important questions about cell phones: “Try to pinpoint the last time you took a purposeless walk through the late spring breeze, when there was no itch in your hand to reach for a mobile device, and you felt like the wind and sky around you had nothing to disclose to you other than the vast and mysteriously sympathy of existence itself. Was it 2007? Or as far back as 1997? Does just asking the question make you feel ill?” http://cvote.it/2pb3cKs
CULTURE // The lewd comments this week by talk show host Stephen Colbert show us the real problem is that so many on the left and right demand ever-cruder political discourse. http://cvote.it/2pb5qcI
CATHOLIC // Catholics desperate to save 9/11 chapel in New York. http://cvote.it/2paVaBl
SAINT // Blessed Michael Giedroyc – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS // “Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.” (Mk 16:15) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
TRUTH //